Chapter 2
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Ye Fuyun continued, "Since Long Fei and I are getting married, I can't go to the countryside. Yesterday, the neighborhood office came to urge us to confirm the list of people from our family who will go to the countryside, so I reported my sister's name... Sister, don't blame me..."
As Ye Fuyun finished speaking, his voice grew weaker and weaker, and he glanced timidly at Ye Fuyue.
"I thought it was a big deal," Ye's mother said nonchalantly, "Since you can't go to the countryside, then naturally your sister has gone."
Ye's father and Ye Yu nodded in agreement.
Since the launch of the "Send to the Countryside Movement" for educated youth, the policy on sending people to the countryside has changed frequently. By 1974, the subdistrict office required that every household must send at least one person to the countryside.
Ye Yu has always been the apple of Ye's parents' eyes. They are waiting for Ye Yu to take care of them in their old age. There is no way that the family's quota to go to the countryside will fall on Ye Yu. It can only be Ye Fuyue or Ye Fuyun.
Before, Ye Fuyue and Wu Longfei were in love, and Wu Longfei took over his mother's job and did not need to go to the countryside. Ye's father and mother naturally hoped that the two could get married as soon as possible, so they decided to let Ye Fuyue go to the countryside.
Who would have thought that within a few days, today’s incident would happen…
Ye Fuyue looked at Ye Fuyun, who seemed timid and helpless, with an indifferent expression.
She always thought that Ye Fuyun stole the bride because she liked Wu Longfei.
Only now did she understand that Ye Fuyun's main purpose was to avoid going to the countryside.
This guy must have been reborn.
Ye Fuyun doesn't want to go to the countryside, and Ye Fuyue doesn't want to go to the countryside either!
Unlike the other time-traveling armies, she didn't have space, supplies, or spiritual springs. She had nothing. With her current physique, she wouldn't necessarily be much better off than the people of today if she went to the countryside.
But even if Ye Fuyue had decided from the bottom of her heart that she didn't want to go to the countryside, she couldn't show it now.
Ye Fuyue smiled calmly at Ye Fuyun and said, "It can't be helped. Since you're getting married, someone from your family has to go to the countryside."
Ye Fuyue's generous words made Ye's father and mother very satisfied. Even Ye Yu, who had always looked down on her and Ye Fuyun, found Ye Fuyue much more pleasing to the eye at this moment.
Ye Fuyun's eyes were full of suspicion and confusion.
Why is Ye Fuyue so strange today? If this were to happen in the past, Ye Fuyue would definitely be dissatisfied and would make a fuss before giving up.
However, having achieved his goal, Ye Fuyun was in a very good mood and did not pay too much attention to Ye Fuyue's transformation. He just thought that Ye Fuyue had accepted her fate.
The place in the countryside where she signed Ye Fuyue up was exactly where she was trapped in her previous life.
She refused to accept it! They were all daughters of the Ye family. Why, just because Ye Fuyue was beautiful and liked by Wu Longfei, did she not have to go to the countryside? Why did she marry Wu Longfei and live a loving and comfortable life?
But she had no choice but to go to the countryside, and was tricked into marrying an old and stupid man. She worked like a slave all her life and never left the village.
While she was suffering and being bullied in the countryside, Ye Fuyue was living a leisurely and comfortable life in the slum. Even though Ye Fuyue was unable to have children, Wu Longfei treated her with the same love as before. Even many years later, when Ye Fuyue finally gave birth to a daughter, Wu Longfei did not despise her.
She was obviously more fertile than Ye Fuyue, she had given birth to four sons for this stupid man! Why couldn't she enjoy Ye Fuyue's good life?
Fortunately, perhaps God had mercy on her and gave her a chance to be reborn.
If she were to live her life again, she would definitely stay in the city and live a better life than Ye Fuyue in her previous life!
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Since Ye Fuyue responded well to the arrangement of going to the countryside, and her family members were busy with their own things, no one paid attention to her. So Ye Fuyue went to the street office and found the staff in charge of the arrangements.
"Hello, comrade. My name is Ye Fuyue. I heard from my sister that she has signed me up to go to the countryside, is that right?" Ye Fuyue said politely to the staff.
The staff looked for the name on the list and found Ye Fuyue's.
Ye Fuyue stretched her neck and sneered in her heart when she saw the place where she was about to go to the countryside on the list.
"Yes, your name is on it," said the staff member.
"I'm sorry, comrade, my sister made a mistake, I can't go to the countryside. I have a lover and we are getting married soon." Ye Fuyue said very apologetically.
The staff member frowned in dissatisfaction and said sternly, "Why are all of you like this? Your attitude is not right! Last time, your sister came over and said she was getting married, so she had to send you to the countryside. Now you come over again saying you want to get married. With your ideological consciousness, you should be taken away for reform!"
Ye Fuyue shrank her neck as if in fear, and said weakly, "Comrade, you don't know, my sister's marriage partner was actually my partner before, but she... Well, that's all in the past. Now they're getting married, so it's better not to talk about it."
Ye Fuyue looked heartbroken and abandoned, and sighed deeply before continuing, "But, ever since he found out about my breakup, a man confessed his love to me. He said he'd always had a crush on me, but because I already had a partner, he'd hidden his feelings for me. Now that he knew we'd broken up, he quickly came to express his feelings to me. He said he wanted to marry me and treat me well for the rest of his life, so I agreed."
Although the staff member still frowned, there was a bit more pity in his expression when he looked at Ye Fuyue.
The younger sister stole her elder sister's partner, and then hurried to register her elder sister to go to the countryside. Everyone knew that this must be because she was guilty and was afraid that her elder sister would stay in the city and ruin the marriage she had stolen!
But, sympathy is sympathy...
"Comrade, I understand your situation, but this list..."
Ye Fuyue smiled faintly at the staff member and said, "My family is well aware that going to the countryside to support rural construction and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants is everyone's obligation. Therefore, we have decided to sign my brother Ye Yu up for going to the countryside. As for the place to go, let's go to the place my sister signed me up for before."
The staff smiled.
In fact, the staff didn’t care at all about which family was assigned to go to the countryside. They just wanted to finalize the list as soon as possible and complete the work.
But the staff member still gave a serious reminder: "The rural deployment is just a few days away. Once the list is submitted, it cannot be changed. Are you sure your family wants your brother to go?"
"Sure." Ye Fuyue smiled and said, "Our family is very conscious, especially my parents. They often nag us three children, saying that everyone has the obligation to receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants. If it weren't for my sister and I getting married, my parents would even want all three of us to go to the countryside."
The staff was delighted to hear this: "People nowadays should have the same level of awareness as your family! If every household had a level of awareness like yours, our work wouldn't be so difficult!"
The staff knew there was something fishy about Ye Fuyue's words. These days, adults resorted to all sorts of tactics to prevent their children from going to the countryside, and the staff had seen it all. However, they rarely saw a situation like this, where several children from one family registered each other for school.
But who cares? As long as the list can be submitted in the end, the staff won’t care who will go to the countryside.
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